I Have Been Taking Notes Wrong, and You Probably Do Too

Tuan Nguyen
7 min readAug 18, 2021

My review of the book “How to take smart notes” by Sönke Ahrens and my journey towards building a Personal Knowledge Management system.

A Physical Zettlekasten — Image from Wikipedia

I am a bookworm, and over the years, I have read and logged nearly 200 books. However, I must admit that for many of the books I read, what little remained in my head are some general ideas of what the book is about. Surely, if I want…

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